Last updated on November 4th, 2024 at 06:47 pm
Looking for quotes about London life? Whether you’re visiting London or looking for London quotes for Instagram, look no further. I’ve got you covered!
London is undoubtedly one of the most famous cities in the world. From older, renowned landmarks such as the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, and the Houses of Parliament to more modern sights such as the London Eye and The Shard, the city’s skyline is iconic. Whether, like me, you’ve lived there all your life – or you’re planning a trip – or just curious – these London quotes are bound to inspire you.
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Famous London Quotes
You might recognise a London quote or two in this section. Here are some famous quotes about London:
1. “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” – Samuel Johnson
2, “London is a roost for every bird.” – Benjamin Disraeli
3. “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” – Samuel Johnson
4. “I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.” – Norman Foster
5. “London is the most commercial city in the world.” – Benjamin Disraeli
6. “I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” – Groucho Marx
7. “London is an endless skirmish between angles and obstacles.” – China Miéville
8. “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.” – Virginia Woolf
9. “You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” – Samuel Johnson
10. “One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.” – Sebastian Faulks
11. “London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides.” – Thomas Brown
12. “London, thou art the flower of cities all.” – William Dunbar
13. “The parks be the lungs of London.” – Charles Dickens
14. “In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.” – John Osborne
15. “London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it.” – Lord Balfour
16. “London life is a mixture of restaurants and theatres, red buses, and noise, but it is always exciting.” – Vivien Leigh
17. “It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.” – George VI
18. “This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the mighty monster London is lying on its back in a sort of apoplexy.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
19. “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.” – G. K. Chesterton
20. “Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.” – Thomas Moore
21. “London is a great place for the recent arrival from abroad. You can eat out every night and never run out of different places to try.” – Christopher Hitchens
22. “London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and difficult to comprehend, but it is also a center of great creativity and genius.” – David Levithan
23. “The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.” – Jane Austen
24. “I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.” – Groucho Marx
25. “London, thou art the flower of cities all!” – William Dunbar
26. “London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.” – Jean Rhys
27. “I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.” – James Boswell
28. “London is like a smoky pearl set in a circle of emeralds.” – William Henry Rideing
29. “The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination is that in such a setting, a man’s life may be lived through perfectly well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. “London is a city of clubs and cabarets, but it is also a city of secret corners.” – David Lodge
More Recent Quotes About London
Here are some great quotes from a few modern-day celebrities:
31. “New York has a great energy, but London has this ongoing momentum of spirit.” – Alan Rickman
32. “In London everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in.” – from Paddington Bear (Michael Bond)
33. “London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.” – Kano
34. “I think London is sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.” – Rachel Weisz
35. “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.” – Virginia Woolf
36. “London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences, and the sentences into words.” – Anna Quindlen
37. “There’s something really fun about playing a villain in London. It’s a dark and twisted place.” – Tom Hardy
38. “London isn’t a place at all. It’s a million little places.” – Bill Bryson
39. “There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.” – Vivienne Westwood
40. “The best thing about London is that it’s such a melting pot.” – Gillian Anderson
41. “The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.” – Natalie Massenet
42. “London has the best student community on earth, and the best place for young, creative people who want to work.” – Felix Dennis
43. “London is a city that has reinvented itself endlessly over centuries.” – Sadiq Khan
44. “No matter where I travel, I will always be a London boy.”– Idris Elba
45. “I feel at home here in London. It has something cosmopolitan about it.” – Alexander McQueen
46. “It is always a pleasure to be in London, where I am greeted with the same warmth I experience at home.” – Madonna
47. “London has long been regarded as a city of opportunity and growth.” – Jo Cox
48. “London, where even the river never sleeps.” – Margaret Thatcher
49. “In London, everyone is anonymous.” – Jonathan Raban
50. “London’s so good for the imagination, so full of adventure.” – Agatha Christie
51. “London is a place where things happen on a grand scale.” – Anjelica Huston
52. “London calling to the faraway towns, now war is declared and battle come down.” – The Clash
Funny Quotes About London
Looking for some funny London quotes? I’ve got you covered:
53. “The English, the English, the English are best. I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest.” – Flanders and Swann
54. “Nothing is certain in London but expense.” – William Shenstone
55. “London is a labyrinth of twisted streets and shifting alleys. You never quite know what’s round the next corner.” – Ben Aaronovitch
56. “I don’t know what London’s coming to – the higher the buildings, the lower the morals.” – Noël Coward
57. “London is the only place where you can get run over on the pavement by a pedestrian.” – Unknown
58. “The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world.” – Oscar Wilde
59. “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
60. “Oh, I love London society! It is composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics.” – Oscar Wilde
61. “In London, the weather is always cool, the shops are full, and the people are always polite.” – George Orwell
62. “London is a small town masquerading as a world city.” – Imran Khan
63. “London: a city that offers the world in one place.” – Stephen Fry
64. “London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper floors.” – George Gissing
65. “I went to London and back, and nothing very much happened. The city was there, I was there, and it rained.” – Fred Allen
66. “London is not a city, it’s a person.” – Unknown
67. “London’s like a drug – it’s addictive. It keeps pulling you back.” – Craig Taylor
68. “London has a way of making you pay through the nose for the privilege of sitting in traffic or on the Tube.” – Unknown
69. “London is too full of fogs and serious people.” – Oscar Wilde
70. “It’s always nice to see friendly faces in London, particularly when they’re on the tube and not actually talking to you.” – Jack Dee
71. “The best thing about London is Paris.” – Diana Vreeland
72. “London’s like an open-air museum; everywhere you turn, there’s history.” – Helen Mirren
73. “I always feel that when I come to London, I am coming home.” – Charles Dickens
74. “London is a bad habit one hates to lose” – William Sansom
75. “London is a wonderful place if you are rich, and I recommend it to all who have incomes.” – George Bernard Shaw
76. “The whole world is present in London.” – Martin Amis
London Captions (for Instagram)
Looking for captions for London?
Maybe you’re looking for some London captions for Instagram to go with your photos! Or perhaps you’re just waiting to be inspired. Here are our recommendations:
77. “Keep calm and love London.”
78. “London calling!”
79. “Mind the gap.”
80. “Lost in London.”
81. “London state of mind.”
82. “From London with love.”
83. “Big Ben and chill.”
84. “London: every street tells a story.”
85. “Meet me by the Thames.”
86. “Taking a stroll across Tower Bridge.”
87. “P.S. I love London.”
88. “Feeling royally at home in London.”
89. “Keep calm and carry on… exploring London!”
90. “On top of the world at the London Eye.”
91. “London is always a good idea.”
92. “I left my heart in London Town.”
93. “A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else.”
94. “Finding magic in the streets of London.”
95. “Walking through history, one step at a time.”
96. “Feeling on top of the world at Westminster.”
97. “When in doubt, head to London.”
98. “London lights and late nights.”
99. “Life is better with a British accent.”
100. “Dreaming of red buses and black cabs.”
101. “Strolling through a London love story.”
102. “Afternoon tea and Tower Bridge.”
103. “Meet me by the London Eye.”
104. “Woke up in the city of fog.”
105. “London, you’ve got me spellbound.”
106. “Where history meets hustle – welcome to London.”
107. “London: where the streets are paved with gold.”
108. “Walking in the footsteps of royalty.”
109. “Postcard views and London hues.”
110. “London has my heart.”
111. “London, baby!”
112. “Living the London life.”
113. “Red buses and rain showers.”
114. “The streets of London never cease to amaze me.”
115. “Getting lost in London never felt so good.”
116. “London vibes and city lights.”
117. “All you need is love and a trip to London.”
118. “Feeling fancy in London town.”
119. “Hello from the other side… of the Thames.”
120. “No place like London.”
121. “Here for the views and the vibes.”
122. “You can leave London, but London never leaves you.”
123. “If you’re having a bad day, head to London and you’ll soon feel better.”
124. “London life: iconic sights and endless nights.”
125. “London is my cup of tea.”
126. “Chasing dreams, not buses in London.”
127. “London: where the past meets the present.”
128. “Adventure awaits in every corner of London.”
129. “Wanderlust + London dust.”
130. “Sipping tea and soaking in the London vibes.”
131. “Caught under London’s spell.”
132. “It’s a London thing.”
133. “Exploring the city of fog and fortune.”
134. “London feels like a home away from home.”
135. “Here for the history, staying for the vibes.”
136. “You can leave London, but it never leaves you.”
137. “London streets and rainy beats.”
138. “Rainy days are better in London.”
139. “From London with love and a lot of memories.”
140. “Falling in love with London, one step at a time.”
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